Signed Euler characteristic conjecture for Kähler manifolds with nonpositive bisectional curvature

Let MM be an nn-dimensional compact Kähler manifold with nonpositive bisectional curvature, and suppose that its Ricci curvature is quasi-negative. Its signed Euler characteristic is the number (1)ncn[M](-1)^n c_n[M], where cn[M]c_n[M] denotes the top Chern number of MM.

Signed Euler characteristic conjecture. Under these hypotheses,

(1)ncn[M]>0.(-1)^n c_n[M]>0.

The source describes this as a complex analogue of the Hopf conjecture. It records that the claim is known when n=2n=2, and when n4n\leq 4 under the stronger assumption that the Kähler metric has nonpositive Riemannian sectional curvature; the full statement remains unresolved in the source.

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Ping Li, “Chern numbers on positive vector bundles and combinatorics”, arXiv:2501.08833 (2025).

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